Databases for Gerontology
Best Bets
| Database | Description | Coverage | More Info |
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| Ageline |
Covers 600 journals, books, book chapters, reports, dissertations, consumer guides, and educational videos focusing on the subject of aging and middle-aged and older adults. |
1978-present (selected coverage 1966-1977) |
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| Sociological Abstracts |
Sociological Abstracts indexes the international literature in sociology and related disciplines. |
1952-present |
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Also Useful
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| Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition |
Provides full text access to more than 540 scholarly journals and citations with abstracts to 800 other magazines and health care publications. |
1984-present |
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| Medline |
Via ISI Web of Knowledge...MEDLINE contains over 12 million records and indexes 3,500+ journals published internationally. |
1950-present |
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| PubMed |
PubMed provides access to bibliographic information from more than 5,200 journals in the life sciences with a concentration on biomedicine. |
1950-present |
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| Sage Knowledge |
Sage Knowledge provides full text access to more than 150 social science encyclopedias and over 100 handbooks. |
1994-present |
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